The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-12-31
BroalbTin's New york Letter.
pecial to the Cannon ApvooArF.


Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
Holiday week and the streets and stores
crowded. The large stores. or l might say
Bazaars, for the term store conveys very
inadequate idea of the wonders contained
in these, marvellous collections. There are
bazaars and plenty of them in New York
and Brooklyn, where everything can be OBJ
talned from the swaddling clothes that
shield the tiny limbs of new born babes to
the shroud that envelopes grandpa as they
carry him to his grave; and indeed after
grandpa is quietly laid TO rest, grandma can
get the sweetest widows cap and the incest
Widows veil there that you ever laid your
eyes on. And In the interval between the
cradle and the grave there is scarcely a
thing that man or woman needs that can
not be obtained in them. Wonderful are
the displays of this holiday time. Enough
to drive woman crazy and send man to
a lunatic asylum. What shall we get the
children2 what mother and fatherP and
grandpa and grandma? and Aunt Susan
and Aunt Priscilla and Aunt Tabethap and
Uncle Joe and Uncle Dick and Uncle Tomp
and Cousin Jane and Cousin Sarah? and,
and, and-Stop, stop, stop! hold on hold
onl or the bank is busted What can one
do in the midst of this wlldeIing maze?
Turn where YOU will everything is SO beauti-
full and so cheap. Women may think they
haye hard time shopping in these bazaars,
but their experience is nothing to that en-
countered by man who tries to surprise
his wife, his family and friends with few
nice Christmas presents.
The modern saleswoman is not only a
revelation, but success. She is civil,
she's enticing, she's deluding; she knows
your erraud and gauges your purse as soon
as you enter the door. The worst of your
) position is that you don't know what you
want yourself, but she does and has got
just exactly the article to suit you. "Nov
D here is vase, sir, Royal Worcester
u marked down from S34,50 to $27,S6; dir
u cheap-thrown away. Why, in the earl,
part of the season we sold these idenica
vases at $50, net; true, 'pon my word,
+ and she looks out of her honest eyes righ
y into yours without winking, till you accep
J every word she says like gospel. You tr!
d to tear yourself away, but she says with
q voice full of tears. "Wait a minute, II
q see Mr.. Brown and try and get it for less ,
:, You can almost see the tears in her eyes
IL you try TO rush away again, conscious tina
If you give $27,86 for Dolly's vase, Mani
e and Jane will have to go without anything
= in vain you struggle, tha syren has be
lie witched you, besides you are only payin
i. half price for it's real genuine Royal wor
IS cester and everybody knows what Roya
'e Worcester means-it's grand cash ever
le time. So YOU take the prize and pass on
N But the passage is as perilous and Difficult
r as the passage of a pilgrim on his way t
N the Beautiful City; pitfalls, quagmires an
b. treacherous nets beset your feet at ever
rs turn; your pocketbook is exhausted Ion
rs before your wants are satisfied. The ming
Of ling of colors and magnificent displays ar
III dazzling, and amid these grand collection
is 1t is proud satisfaction to krow that S
~ many things are of American manufactur,
ny costly silks, carpets, rugs, velyets, lace
s, and bric-a-brac of every kind and character
as In one department in rich collection {
ne Royal Worcester, Gobelin, Dresden an
to Sevres wares l saw beautiful lot of good
m that were entirely new to me; they woul
Sc compare favorably in beauty of design an
to workmanship with the finest articles of yirt
~ | fhara. vol IN
It's that they were manufactured in the city
be Brooklyn. Several of the vases, pitcher
u and other articles of yirtu ran from fifty
If one hundred and fifty dollars.
1t seems to me that never saw sue
it eager crowds before, and they all hay
of money. l know retail store which hi
nd under its roof 1900 employees and who.
st daily receipts in the past week varied fro
or $50, 900 to $4,000 per day. In the mid
be of this pushing, anxious, eager crowd
Ial paused with brain whirling, conscious thi
ty the pocketbook was exhausted and th
la there were lots of wants still unsatisfie
ed "The prudent man studies economy in IL
ii- hour of his prosperity" says some on
er- Well, what if he did? There was o
IN Skinfint Cluchem, he pinched and screwt
les and twisted, and denied himself and ever
ist body else, and he died worth a hundrt
ut thousand dollars and his son Tom got
ue after the old man died, and he scattered
M to the winds. He wound up by being
,ut capper in gambling den in Kansas cit
in and he was killed there in drunken brav
ate and that was the end of old Clutchem
nd hundred thousand dollars, the man wi
nd boasted that he never gave q Christm
he present in his life. So said to myself l
or. hang up my economy till after Christm
,or and then I'll think about it, but all the
ng stockings have to be filled and those tn
di- expect something from Santa Claus shi
eat not be disappointed If can help it,
cir here goes, and went 1t. l might have
fit hustle around little to raise the wheI
.he withall, but did it, for 1 said to mySe
of perhaps before another Christmas comes
ust may be where there will be no stockings
eal fill; ] shall need no stockings there and /
for boarding that brought no memories
ro- those Of sorrow, suffering and grief "
of naught avail me- In many house the
lti- childrens' offerings are a heavy sacrlfC
of But is it not worth it after all? Aroul
these Christmas trees which we now re
at such sacrifice and cost will cling t
OF brightest and most golden memories of t
md years to come.
1th A special delight was the Christmas II
to the gracious lady whose mortal renal
were deposited last week in the buria! grou
UT of Old Trinity. Mrs. John Astor leay